GNOME 3.6 is the latest update to GNOME 3 and represents 6 months of work by the GNOME Project. It delivers a number of major new features, including a reworked Activities Overview, updated message tray and notifications, an enhanced Files application, as well as improved accessibility support and integrated input sources for using different languages. It also incorporates a host of smaller enhancements. Together, these changes make GNOME 3 better than ever before.

The GNOME Project is an international community of contributors that is backed by a non-profit Foundation. We focus on user experience, stability, first-class internationalization, and accessibility. GNOME is Free Software and available to all. All our work is free to use, modify and redistribute.

Since the last version, 3.4, approximately 1112 people made about 38302 changes to GNOME. Anyone can get involved in GNOME to help us to improve our software. If you are interested in working on GNOME, you can join us. You can also support us financially by becoming a Friend of GNOME.

What's New in Our Core User Interface

What's New in Our Applications

What's New in Accessibility

What's New in Internationalization

What's New for Administrators

What's New for Developers

Getting GNOME 3.6

The code for GNOME 3.6 is available to download as Free Software. To install it, we recommend that you wait for the official packages provided by your vendor or distribution. Popular distributions will make GNOME 3.6 available very soon, and some already have development versions that include the new GNOME release.

If you cannot wait or just want to give GNOME a try, download one of our live images!

If you have a technical background you can also build GNOME from source.

About GNOME

Contributors attending GNOME's GUADEC 2012 conference

The GNOME Project is an international community of contributors that is backed by a non-profit Foundation. We focus on user experience, stability, first-class internationalization, and accessibility. GNOME is Free Software and available to all. All our work is free to use, modify and redistribute.

GNOME 3.6 could not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of the GNOME community. Congratulations and thanks to everyone.

On behalf of all the contributors, enjoy GNOME 3.6!